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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
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W. N. P. Barbellion
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Lacépède
composed
his
Histoire
des
Poissons
during
the
French
Revolution.
Then
there
were
Diogenes
and
Archimedes.
This
defence
of
course
implicates
me
in
an
unbounded
opinion
of
the
importance
of
my
own
work.
"He
is
quite
the
little
poet,"
some
one
said
of
Keats.
"It
is
just
as
if
a
man
remarked
of
Buonaparte,"
said
Keats,
in
a
pet,
"that
he's
quite
the
little
general."
A
Woman
and
a
Child
On
the
way
to
the
Albert
Hall
came
upon
the
most
beautiful
picture
of
young
maternity
that
ever
I
saw
in
my
life.
She
was
a
delightfully
girlish
young
creature--a
perfect
phœnix
of
health
and
beauty.
As
she
stood
with
her
little
son
at
the
kerb
waiting
for
a
'bus,
smiling
and
chatting
to
him,
a
luminous
radiance
of
happy,
satisfied
maternal
love,
maternal
pride,
womanliness
streamed
from
her
and
enveloped
me.
We
got
on
the
same
'bus.
The
little
boy,
with
his
long
hair
and
dressed
in
velvet
like
little
Lord
Fauntleroy,
said
something
to
her--she
smiled
delightedly,
caught
him
up
on
her
knees
and
kissed
him.
Two
such
pretty
people
never
touched
lips
before--I'm
certain
of
it.
It
was
impossible
to
believe
that
this
virginal
creature
was
a
mother--childbirth
left
no
trace.
She
must
have
just
budded
off
the
baby
boy
like
a
plant.
Once,
in
her
glance,
she
took
me
in
her
purview,
and
I
knew
she
knew
I
was
watching
her.
In
travelling
backwards
from
Kensington
Gardens
to
the
boy
again,
her
gaze
rested
on
me
a
moment
and
I,
of
course,
rendered
the
homage
that
was
due.
As
a
matter
of
fact
there
was
no
direct
evidence
that
she
was
the
mother
at
all.
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